Connecticut man sentenced to 55 years in manhunt killing

MILFORD, Conn. — A 26-year old man who used a sword to attack two men in Eastern Connecticut before going on a crime spree that included killing a former classmate and kidnapping a woman before during a multistate manhunt was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in prison. Peter Manfredonia pleaded guilty in February to murder, kidnapping and other charges in the shooting death of Nicholas Eisele, 23, and the kidnapping of Eisele’s girlfriend. Friends and family of Eisele wore T-shirts to Milford Superior Court emblazoned with his photo inside a...